Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should 've tidied up a bit — that would 've made Mr Jackson think I 'm grown up enough to look after myself , but it 's too late now . |
| 2 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 3 | It must 've taken quite a bit of courage for the girls to have kept their babies . |
| 4 | ‘ Surely someone should have checked out the complaints more carefully . ’ |
| 5 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 6 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 7 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 8 | The believe planners should have turned down the application . |
| 9 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 10 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 11 | It would need a profound belief in providence to make one refrain from wondering why a group of foggy islands off Europe 's north-western shores , populated beyond the means of subsistence that the islands could provide , endowed with no great natural assets outside the coalfields , should have become both the centre of a world empire and a possible arbiter of European rivalries . |
| 12 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 13 | Something we should have mentioned earlier no doubt about that . |
| 14 | hon. Friend the Member for Hexham ( Mr. Amos ) immediately in front of me , I should have welcomed equally the presence of the attractive blonde lady who was sitting in front of me last week , but she obviously has other things to do this week . |
| 15 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 16 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 17 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 18 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 19 | The thesis which should have brought about a major revolution in the study of religion , society and culture has instead been ignored , repudiated and contradicted ; the promised revolution has totally aborted and in general nothing remains in modern applied psychoanalysis of Totem and Taboo save an emasculated , diluted and vitiated remnant . |
| 20 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 21 | Carlo believes , and rightly so , that the British Government should have carried out an environmental study before the route was chosen , not afterwards . |
| 22 | Thus , he should have investigated how the patient has coped previously . |
| 23 | Should have laughed all the more were n't ya ? |
| 24 | One of the most important limitations on statutory safeguards is the insistence that , to qualify for most rights , you must have built up a specified period of continuous employment . |
| 25 | ‘ Granny 's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you . ’ |
| 26 | She must have understood why the dog hung back . |
| 27 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 28 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 29 | We must have made quite a sight trailing along the road with scythes , rakes , forks , the sledge and the sweep , mowing machine , and our food in a basket . |
| 30 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |